Ahmed Salem

Ahmed Salem was the commander of the Polisario Front's Polisario 2nd Battalion.

Biography
Salem's father was imprisoned and murdered by the Moroccan Army  when they invaded the Western Sahara in 1975, and his brother disappeared in 1981. Salem moved to the Boujdour Refugee Camp in Tindouf Province, Algeria, as an exile living among many other Sahrawis who had never seen their homeland. Salem speaks Spanish, the secondary language of Sahrawis behind Arabis.